Monday, November 18, 2013

Please join The Butcher's Daughter in congratulating Kevin Beasley for his inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial Mar 7 - May 25, 2014

Untitled (Wrong), 2013 (detail)

30 x 25 x 20"
resin, body pillows, t-shirt, hooded sweatshirt

Please join The Butcher's Daughter in congratulating

Kevin Beasley

for his inclusion in the

2014 Whitney Biennial

Mar 7 - May 25, 2014

Curated by Stuart Comer currently Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA, Anthony Elms, Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Michelle Grabner, Professor and Chair of the Painting Institute, Chicago

Kevin Beasley was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1985. He holds an MFA from Yale University (2012) and received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit (2007). He has exhibited nationally with The Butcher's Daughter (Detroit, MI) in group shows in Los Angeles, throughout Michigan, and New York.

Beasley's recent exhibitions include "Fore" at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012-13), "Some Sweet Day" at the Museum of Modern Art (2012) and "An All Day Event, The End" at Danspace (2012).

Beasley has recently completed a fellowship for the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY and he will be the artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem for 2013-2014.